There is less emphasis on keeping a constant rhythm with alternating down- and upstrokes, but you should be able to see how the rudiments laid out in the first two examples are being put to use.

In human music, rhythm is often thought of as a constant beat, like the one that opens “We Will Rock You” by Queen. But in birdsong, rhythm refers to patterns of notes, regardless of whether ...

Lemur calls have a rhythm that may explain how humans evolved singing and music, study finds A lemur species known as the indri makes peculiar sounds that have surprising implications for human ...

Before language, there was sound. Before logic, there was rhythm. And before we understand what someone is saying, our nervous system is already listening—sorting the frequencies, decoding the ...

Despite the differences between chimpanzee and human drumming, chimps show some of the “core building blocks of human musical rhythm”, says team member Vesta Eleuteri at the University of ...